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out walking in the woods, and I with a few others stayed to get the dinner ready.  The young boys made a table out of pieces of wood and logs.  It was great fun in watching them baking potatoes in thick mud, where the fire could hardly burn.  After dinner a picture was taken, and it was very hard, as you can imagine to keep a group of twenty-one quiet amidst all the jokes and fun.  Then we went into the woods, and crossed different parts of the brooks, for there were plenty of hands to build bridges across for us, so that we could have a better view of the waterfall.  In crossing the bridges, several thought it necessary to take turns in falling, so making it still more exciting and interesting.  Not long after this, our pleasant and jolly day at Van Hornsville ended.